bumbershoot

Example Sentences

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But that standard has a decidedly old school feel to it, conjuring up an image of, say, an English gentleman like John Steed with a bumbershoot and a bowler hat.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2022

That year the ran a short editorial praising bumbershoot as "a term that drips with poetry and magic" and referring to it as "the mystical name, the children's name, for an umbrella."

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011

Third, the fact that bumbershoot sort of sounds British.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011

There wasn't a bumbershoot of any description on the Lyric stage.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the men, he shrugged and joked, “One must stay a step ahead of the weather. Wouldn’t do to be caught in the rain without a bumbershoot, what?”

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood